Write a commentTelstar the Movie Launches at the Belfast Queen's Film Theatre this weekend. It opens on Friday night 19th June and Continues each night until Thursday the 25th June at 6.45pm each night. Actor Con O'Neill with Parents from Dundalk and connections in the Newry area plays an absolute blinder as Joe Meek.
See the Queens Film Theatre Website Con more recently appeared on the BBC in the Five Part Drama "Criminal Justice" Set in the backdrop of early 60's London, TELSTAR is the story of the worlds first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal early success with TELSTAR - the biggest selling record of its time - before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia forced him into murder and suicide.
A gay, amphetamine addicted, talented but deeply troubled soul, Meek dabbled in the occult. He is already an iconic figure in the world of British pop. Far from being a maudlin tale, this stranger than fiction true story is a satirical comic drama revealing the many sides of Joe Meek, a man who is now revered as a pioneer in the field of popular music. See the Telstar the Movie Website
